A Japanese snack stand and five other Melbourne takeaway selections for the weekend

Cooks and dining places are getting resourceful as lockdown carries on, several of them striving out brand-new dishes that might hardly ever be noticed yet again. In this article are a handful to attempt this weekend, as nicely as some packing containers to enjoy at home from celebrated wonderful-diners and compact nearby organizations.

Congress x Foreseeable future Long run

Collingwood wine bar Congress is bringing its weekend tuckshop to sister cafe Long term Potential in Richmond this Saturday. Although toasties and venison sausage sizzle have led the nostalgic menus in Collingwood, this weekend’s treats display a lot of Japanese influences in a nod to Upcoming Future’s menu.

Consider panko-crumbed cauliflower sandos and a katsu pork chop improved by the umami flavours of Vegemite. Dorayaki, sweet stuffed pancakes, choose a trip down a really Australian memory lane with Milo and passionfruit pavlova flavours. Winemaker Mac Forbes is also joining the pleasurable, giving again vintage and 1-off bottles at a car or truck-boot sale.

Duck sausage buns.
Duck sausage buns. Photo: Jana Langhorst


The crew are taking a number of safety measures to make positive lockdown regulations are adopted and teams do not acquire. Food items can be pre-ordered, and clients will obtain a unique pick-up time to gather their food from Upcoming Future’s major entrance. The auto-boot sale is using position in the rear courtyard and will be manned by a COVID marshal to observe the stream of individuals.

Obtainable Saturday, 11am-3pm at Potential Foreseeable future, 191 Swan Avenue, Richmond. Pre-purchase food immediate

Pt Leo Estate

This prime-rated Peninsula cafe is heading to the town this weekend, with Pt Leo Estate containers landing on doorsteps in Ivanhoe, Ringwood, Glen Waverley, Hawthorn and much more suburbs stretching across Melbourne’s east.

There are two strategies to go: combine and match your favorite dishes from the restaurant’s menu (all designed for two) or go with the set menu.

This 7 days it’s a fire-influenced box that capabilities chargrilled sugarloaf cabbage, smoked and grilled O’Connor beef small rib, and malt Basque cheesecake ($200 for two men and women). Be absolutely sure to get your purchase in by 4pm the working day ahead of.

Obtainable Friday-Saturday for shipping to choose Melbourne suburbs and across the Mornington Peninsula. Get on the net

Bar Bianco x Hemingway’s

These two sister venues separated by the Yarra are teaming up for a one particular-off menu obtainable Friday through Sunday. Prahran’s Bianco specialises in snacks manufactured for ingesting while Hemingway’s is an East Melbourne Francophile hangout.

With their powers combined, they are giving remedied kingfish with kohlrabi, prawn cocktail (why not?) and duck breast with orange and celeriac. There’s also wagyu cheek pithiviers and a strawberry tart in the 6-class box that will come all set to try to eat ($179 for two individuals).

Obtainable Friday-Sunday for choose-up from East Melbourne or supply inside of 10km. Buy immediate right before 10am Sunday.

Nabil Ansari at The Cricketers Bar

In the metropolis, Nabil Ansari is having some entertaining with road snacks that you may possibly eat at a cricket match in India: vada pav (pictured previously mentioned), curry puffs and duck samosa with medjool dates. He is also serving mango lassi tender-provide and his all set-to-warmth curries will be readily available to inventory your fridge at house.

Operating from the entrance doors of the bar that’s part of the Lodge Windsor, Ansari will be serving most merchandise hot and the crew is requesting that individuals collect their foodstuff and go.

You can also pick up gluten-free of charge treats made by Felix Goodwin, who wowed Melbourne final 12 months with his as-great-as-the-original but coeliac-welcoming sourdough, babka and a lot more.

Available Fri-Sat, 11am-2pm or until finally sold out at Hotel Windsor, 111 Spring Street, Melbourne

Bekka

Deal with your eating table with a distribute that incorporates kibbeh, juicy chargrilled chicken, brilliant salads and pickles, and stacks of flatbread with an order from this Moonee Ponds spot.

The restaurant’s array of mezze can quickly be recreated at property, or you can decide for wraps and incredibly hot chips to retain all customers of the family delighted. Pick your filling from kofta, hen, Lebanese sausage or falafel served 3 unique methods (which include with halloumi).

Offered Tue-Solar evenings. Delivery obtainable or choose-up from Moonee Ponds. Purchase on the net or by phone 03 9077 8827

Sig Enzo’s Sicilian Smoke Out

Napier Quarter chef Lorena Corso is trying to keep her knives sharp throughout lockdown by environment up a street-side grill outside Brunswick venue Sig Enzo on weekends.

This Saturday (and Sunday, weather conditions allowing), she’ll be slicing open up bread rolls and filling them with pork, sunshine-dried tomato and pecorino sausages, smoked meatballs and smoked eggplant. All rolls are completed with salsa verde and pickled zucchini.

As generally, it is really a get your meals and go on circumstance.

Out there Saturday from noon right up until bought out, 1d Michael Avenue, Brunswick

Tempura Hajime

Thank your blessed stars that a single of the city’s very best Japanese dining places has just included a takeaway menu. It could not have the theatre or the specifically crisp tempura you are accustomed to when dining in, but we reckon a bento stuffed with teriyaki salmon or beef, prawn gyoza, fried hen, potato salad and much more ($30) is a respectable trade-off. There are also platters of nigiri and sushi rolls accessible ($30). This a single is for South Melbourne locals only.

Offered Tue-Fri for lunch and Tue-Sat for meal. Decide-up only. Get by cellphone 03 9696 0051.